Friday, May 29, 2015

Orenda - Back in the Grave (2006)

Bulgarian black metal. Simple riffs played repeatedly to hypnotic effect over unending blastbeats -- aside from fills, it's literally all blasts until the last track -- and hateful vocals, with a subtle but crucial sense of dynamics generated by layering in reverb-drenched leads, sparse keyboards, and samples. Think of it as black metal for people who listen to too much black metal, in that it's next level in a way that (probably) only total nerds like me can appreciate.